Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early discussion with the authority 's officers to see exactly what information they require with the application , as well as to ensure that the proposed development is basically acceptable to the authority obviously helps to reduce the time needed . |
| 2 | I 'm only trying to sell the time then ! |
| 3 | and er I only have to mention the time though , oh dear |
| 4 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
| 5 | Allow a maximum of 30 minutes per question ( if it is a 6-in-3-hours paper ) , using your stop watch so that you do not need to remember the time you started . |
| 6 | ‘ The bright child is not going to get the time or flexibility to study things that will develop his own personal , social or moral education . |
| 7 | If you look at the industry as a whole , there 's obviously the problem that by producing so much more content that people are are simply not going to have the time to get through it . |
| 8 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 9 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
| 10 | As she headed for the stairs her mind was already trying to calculate the time since the call . |
| 11 | Forces , being a smallish town and by no means a city , the passing of street pleasantries is not quite the folk art it is in villages but people still enjoy passing the time of day with their neighbours . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , like everyone else we wonder how we can ever afford to replace the time expired capital equipment and infrastructure which was our legacy from the past 20 years of neglect . |
| 13 | They were also asked to record the time at which hunger returned . |
| 14 | When young supporters chant ‘ We 'll be running round Pompey with our willies hanging out , singing I 've got a bigger one than you ’ , or some other scatological rhyme , slightly changed to fit the time and place , they are doing nothing new . |
| 15 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 16 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 17 | Says Marcus Lyon : ‘ You are always going to get the lazy buyer who wants a barn conversion because they do n't want to take the time and trouble to do it themselves . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't want to take the time to work this out with my tension swatch ( this had 30 stitches and 44 rows to 10 centimetres ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't have thought The Times was Clasper 's favourite paper , exactly , ’ he muttered to his mate . |
| 21 | Well I do n't mean to shorten the time , it 's better than playing all day . |
| 22 | But just do n't seem to have the time or even the energy ? |
| 23 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |